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Liked It “I won't say it's a straight-up easy book to read, but I've never found Jung as difficult to read as everyone says he is. An illuminating look into the life and ideas of an indisputable genius. Definitely a book to be remembered, not only by an individual, but by human society as a whole.” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“Excellent, for the inquiring mind, into the area of pyschoanalysis, dream intrepretation, and the quest of better understanding into how the human psyche works.”
John P wrote this review 3 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“I won't say it's a straight-up easy book to read, but I've never found Jung as difficult to read as everyone says he is. An illuminating look into the life and ideas of an indisputable genius. Definitely a book to be remembered, not only by an individual, but by human society as a whole.”
David F wrote this review Tuesday, October 13 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“This was a “must have” book for me after reading it. I found it profoundly touching, insightful, and compelling on so many levels.”
Tony wrote this review 2 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Spiritual realities steer the lives of certain persons, whose immutable world prevails over the mutable one, qualifying this late and determining it in last instance. Carl G. Jung refers to it as a relevant feature of conscience. Those persons have the privilege of knowing and feeling more acutely and profoundly, reaching truths that remain unrevealed for others. For this sort of individuals the external reality courses as foreign and irrelevant for their fundamental decisions and definitions. Every person is a psychic process, which cannot dominate, or only does it partially; due to that the person is unable to judge her/him self or hers/his own life. In the bottom one never knows. The history of a person has a beginning at any point that one remembers, but already it is something very complicated to explain, or to be fully understood. From the point of view of conscience, in strict sense, we cannot talk about a real beginning. Maybe other people related to us could tell data about us, but inside us it is very different story. The categories do not correspond with the vision of the witnesses, being ours the only that matters. Nonetheless most people believe that what matters remains in the witnesses (family, society, profession, job, environment, etc.), not in themselves. Inner events in the childhood can be more lucid, important, definitive and transcendental than the rest of a lifetime interacting with the exterior world (the witnesses). I believe our inner reality is the crucial subject. Recounting has not strictly temporal progression. The sequence of external factors is marginal to the timeline. Let us say it is purely conceptual.”
Raúl Hernández Olea wrote this review Wednesday, August 12 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Very good!!!”
Sálua M wrote this review Tuesday, July 14 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“One of my favorite Jung reads because I always get the FEELING of his developing ideas as he lives through them.”
Molly B wrote this review Tuesday, April 14 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I haven't read Carl Jung much (just parts of this book), but from all the things I've heard that he said or spoke of, I believe Carl Jung was never wrong about anything.
inhahe wrote this review Wednesday, June 25 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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0 of 4 members found this review helpful“I'm not sure its worth reading Jung anymore. ”
Marconi wrote this review Sunday, June 1 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“One of the best memoirs ever written, this book has impacted my own dreams. Jung is still vital even as his spirit pervaded the reality of the 70s in almost everything I encountered.”
muque and shylock tomes wrote this review Saturday, July 4 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Impressive how sophisticated Jung's thinking was; great intro to Jung and fun to read, especially the parts on his trip to Africa and thoughts on the afterlife. Interesting guy, don't go through life having not read this book!”
Gavin wrote this review Saturday, March 8 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
